Asklemmy

For real. I've seen kids years younger than when I started pedaling scurrying around on these, and it instantly clicked why it's a much better way to learn to stay upright on two wheels.

I wish my first bike had been something like that. Training wheels stop a bike from leaning into turns, so they don't teach you anything about what it is like to ride without them.

Strider wasn't the first to come up with balance bikes for kids specifically, they have been around for decades and balance bikes themselves, for a few hundred years.

Not always, it was an octothorpe before phones

Makes sense to me. Open office designs SUCK. I share an office with 2 other people and I’m much, much more productive in my home office with 3 kids in the house because I can shut my door, be alone with my thoughts, and be productive.

Just curious about what does VC stand for, don't know anything about business

Although to be fair these days that gig is over. Unless you have path towards profitability it’s very hard to unlock investment beyond seed.

I have an official USB pet rock I got from a thinkgeek back in the day. Has a little box with air holes and everything.

Exactly as functional as the original pet rock, but has a short USB cable attached.

With Uber, they started with ride sharing and slowly nudged its way towards being a car-for-hire business. The reason it worked was because no one really liked taxis and didn't want to defend that monopoly.

Today, cities are trying to regulate places like Airbnb to reduce their presence in major cities, but the only real hate towards Uber and Lyft has more to deal with employee pay.

Ah yeah, lots of pseudo-medicine falls into it.

Of course water has memory.

Of couse physically abusing your kid is healthy for it.

Of course this quartz will help you.

And then you actually strike gold with this shit and years later a well-known actress is selling candles that smell like her minge. Unbelievable.

Starting a taxi company by ignoring frauding all the regulation related to taxi operation, ( Uber)

TBF people also enjoyed parts of it that aren't regulation related, such as upfront cost calculation. Scamming customers is harder and even in those events, it's possible to get refunds.

The first one is pretty much down to, as Gabe Newell puts it, "piracy is a service problem". Spotify came along and (initially) provided a much better service compared to pirating your music at the time. Once they created the market segment, competitors started their own streaming subscriptions. I'd also say the Google music "upload 50,000 tracks for free" got a lot of former pirates to jump.

Now the services are going through the same enshittification that most popular online services seem to be going through, we can see piracy increasing again. Someone will notice and fill the gap in providing a good service again at some point and the pendulum will swing once more

I kinda get it, if you want takeout food and you can't or won't drive it could be convenient. But it's just so expensive.

Hey, as the saying goes, nobody was ever fired for running up an astronomical AWS bill.